Favorites have a .url extension

After several imports and exports to and from IE7 and IE8 all my individual
favorite links have .url after them. It's not a problem, but nit would be
nice to be able get rid of that for a clean look!
As I have several thousands favorites, is there some little utility that I
could run to do this? (Currently using IE8 on Win 7RC)

Hi,
See this page.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/favext.htm
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Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> After several imports and exports to and from IE7 and IE8 all my
individual
> favorite links have .url after them. It's not a problem, but nit would be
> nice to be able get rid of that for a clean look!
> As I have several thousands favorites, is there some little utility that I
> could run to do this? (Currently using IE8 on Win 7RC)
>

"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> See this page.
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/favext.htm

No's 1 and 3 I can't do because it's IE8 on Win 7, and no 2, creating a
Registry key, ( NeverShowExt), that reg key is there already.
Should I delete the key, re-boot and then re-create it?

Gordon wrote:

> After several imports and exports to and from IE7 and IE8 all my
> individual favorite links have .url after them. It's not a problem, but
> nit would be nice to be able get rid of that for a clean look!
> As I have several thousands favorites, is there some little utility that I
> could run to do this? (Currently using IE8 on Win 7RC)

Please ask for help in the Windows 7 Forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/

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"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> See this page.
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/favext.htm

Hi Don,

If I delete the regkey mentioned in that page the favorites become
"Google.url.url"
If I then re-create the key they become "Google.url"
Is there a way of exporting the Favorites list to (say) Word, removing all
instances of url and re-importing?

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> After several imports and exports to and from IE7 and IE8 all my
> individual favorite links have .url after them. It's not a problem, but
> nit would be nice to be able get rid of that for a clean look!
> As I have several thousands favorites, is there some little utility that I
> could run to do this? (Currently using IE8 on Win 7RC)


Thanks to all the responders - finally I exported favorites to a htm file,
opened in Word and did a Find and Replace to replace .url with nothing and
saved the file.
Deleted all the favorites in my Favorites folder, opened IE and imported the
saved file.

I don't know why everyone seems to have so many problems trying to get their
IE7 favorites in to IE8 or vice versa? Whenever I install or reinstall an
operating system, I always go immediately to C: Users> me and move the
location of my favorites folder to my exisiting Favorites folder which is
stored on a partition.

This works a treat! No messing around editing shortcuts in Notepad and
saving them as ANSI or anything! And you never lose all your favorites
either. It seems such an obvious solution that I don't know why more people
don't do it?
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Triple-Core Processor. 3gb RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS graphics card. Vista
Home Premium SP2.


"Gordon" wrote:

>
> "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:F967C24A-216B-4C1D-B1AD-B608E8640B73@microsoft.com...
> > After several imports and exports to and from IE7 and IE8 all my
> > individual favorite links have .url after them. It's not a problem, but
> > nit would be nice to be able get rid of that for a clean look!
> > As I have several thousands favorites, is there some little utility that I
> > could run to do this? (Currently using IE8 on Win 7RC)
>
>
> Thanks to all the responders - finally I exported favorites to a htm file,
> opened in Word and did a Find and Replace to replace .url with nothing and
> saved the file.
> Deleted all the favorites in my Favorites folder, opened IE and imported the
> saved file.
>

[Groff]

I had this problem in Windows 7.

Turned out it was caused by my trying to manually set a default file association for the extension ".url" in "Default Programs."

When I went back and reset it to "Internet Browser" the extensions disappeared (and my favicons came back).

I suspect the same thing could happen in Vista.